Loving and Serving His Word - Daily Readings for Inspiration and Growth

Reading for May 21

Jim Elliot

by Dave Quintana - Servants of the Word

Jim Elliot was a missionary to South America. He died a martyr's death as a very young man, aged 30. His wife, author and speaker Elisabeth Elliot, has been a faithful witness to Christ for decades now since his death. Jim is known, among other things, for a simple yet very profound saying, "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." He lived that saying and he died that saying. This life is short, very short for some, and passing. Thus, you must live it well. We may not all be called to fulfil this saying the way Jim Elliot was, but we are each called not to be fools, and to live and die so as to gain what we cannot lose.

For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it. For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? Mk 8:35-36 ESV

Daily Meds from the Q Source
by Dave Quintana, published by Tabor House, 2012

Dave Quintana's daily meditations and Bible readings to stir our minds and kindle our hearts in 2013. He explores themes important to all who search to be wise men and women in the Lord, and provides a wealth of personal experience from living and ministering in Central America, Asia, Europe, and the United States. Expect to be challenged. Expect to be inspired. Expect to meet the living and loving God. 

Dave Quintana is an elder of the Servants of the Word, a missionary brotherhood of men living single for the Lord.


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